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Remember when we told you about a new filesharing service called Omemo? Back when we first broke news of the service, it was still so new that we hadn’t had a chance to analyze it. We’ve had Omemo running for a few days now and think it’s a fairly exciting and interesting filesharing service, but it isn’t likely to displace established filesharing programs, such as Limewire or Morpheus, just yet.

Installing Omemo was easy enough. After launching the filesharing program, a window opens up in your browser of choice and you can then browse “Audio”, “Video”, “Software”, “Images”, “Documents”, “Miscellaneous”, “Most Popular” and “Newest”. Each category is further divided into sub categories. For “Audio”, you can then browse through music by category and then artist. You cannot, however, browse by artist alone, but there is a search function.

You browse through Omemo files as if you are moving through the folders and files of a hard drive. At the moment, there aren’t too many files that are on the Omemo network. This is because the program is brand new and still in Beta. Omemo is free to use, although there is talk of a subscription fee for ad-free use of the service in the future.

Downloading files is simple enough. You just browse through until you find something you want, then click “Download”, wait and leave feedback.

The only trouble is that it’s unclear exactly how Omemo works. The concept is that you share files by using a portion of your hard drive. You can choose how much of your hard drive you use — the default is 10%. However, we couldn’t work out which part of our hard drive was being used.

Everything is user created, so you can create folders and then upload files for sharing. We uploaded one file into a new folder. It was easy to do, but we’re still unsure if everything on the network needs to be uploaded before it is shared. We also downloaded one file. Again, it was painless.

Omemo is an interesting filesharing service, but it’s unclear how it is any better than Limewire or other filesharing programs, particularly with so few users and a limited range of files on the network. Also, there is no mention of quality control or how the system will cope with corrupt or mislabeled files.

We’ll be keeping an eye on Omemo to see how it improves once it gets passed Beta.

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